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Power 
W
ithout 
G
lory
Bride 
U
nknown

The Girl 
W
ho Couldn't Quite

Power Without Glory

by Michael Clayton Hutton

January 24 1953

Directed by  

Betty Gedge

Cast
Patricia Hollingworth - Flo
Betty Perry - Maggie [her mother]
Maureen Baker - Edith [Maggie's sister]
Patrick Johnson - Eddie [Maggie's elder son]
Betty Carpenter - Anna 
John Wilson - Cliff [Maggie's second son]
Michael Dawes - John [Maggie's husband]
Production Crew
Stage Manager - Diana Hubbard 
Lighting - Frank Hurrell
Effects - John Chatfield
Properties - Claire Smithers, Sheila Cottier

Bride Unknown

by Joan Brampton
[based on a novel by Charlotte M Yonge]

February  20, 21 1953

Directed by  

John Wilson

the programme is not available but the press articles of the time enable the following to be deduced 

Cast
Diana Hubbard - Mary Queen of Scots
Betty Gedge - Countess of Shrewsbury
Sylvia Sartin - Cicely Talbot
Maureen Pettyt -
Jennifer Hall - 
Eileen Turley - 
Production Crew
Stage Manager - Elwyn Wass 
Costumes - Betty Perry, Anita Wilcox
Properties - Paul Webster, Desmond Tyler
Effects - John Chatfield
House Manager - Donald Halfrey

Review of the time

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"New play about Mary, Queen of Scots"

A successful presentation of Bride Unknown a new play by Joan Hampton, was given by the Young Wick Players last night in the Barn Theatre, Southwick.  The story is based on a legend that the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots, had a daughter, who was adopted, her birth being kept secret.  Twenty years later the girl seeks out her mother on the eve of her execution and comforts her; but to protect her daughter Mary refuses to reveal the secret of her birth.  Under John Wilson's direction the performance reached a moving pitch of tragic emotion.  Diana Hubbard and Sylvia Sartin who shared some effective scenes as Mary and her daughter.  

The Girl Who Couldn't Quite

by Leo Marks

November 1953

Directed by  

Betty Carpenter

the programme is not available but the press articles of the time enable the following to be deduced

Cast
Desmond Tyler - Tramp
Sylvia Sartin - Ruth 
Eileen Turley - Mother to Ruth
Betty Gedge - Grandmother to Ruth
Edwin Tupper - Paul Evans
Ross Workman - 
Godfrey Evans - Sir John
Production Crew

Review of the time

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"The girl who couldn't quite"

If author Leo Marks had been present at the Young Wick Player's production of his serio-comedy "The Girl Who Couldn't Quite" at the Barn Theatre, Southwick, at the week-end, he might have thought of changing the title. Certainly he would have joined in the laughter caused by the delightfully unselfconscious performance of the tramp who couldn't quite remember his lines.  A newcomer to the amateur stage, Desmond Tyler has a natural gift for buffoonery.  With all the sang-froid of the practiced comedian he turned his lapses of memory into the high-spots of the evening.  What audience could fail to respond to the lovable vagrant who confides across the footlights "Just a minute, I've forgotten me words", and then appeals loudly to the prompter for help?  It must be a trifle disconcerting for the rest of the cast, but such unusual informality was great fun for everyone else.  In more serious vain, but pointing every witty line, Betty Gedge gave an outstandingly good performance as a modern grandmother forced to take a tramp into her house in order to entertain an ailing granddaughter who is not quite right in the head.  Sylvia Sartin was nicely convincing in the title role, and the anxious mother was well played by Eileen Turley. 

Next Season - 1954